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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8168093 | Cable having internal identifying indicia and associated methods A cable for ensuring the authenticity thereof and discouraging the unauthorized counterfeiting of the cable may include a cable core and an opaque outer jacket surrounding the cable core. The jacket may include identifying indicia visible on an inner surface of the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7713451 | Process for manufacturing a water-resistant telecommunication cable A process for manufacturing a water-resistant telecommunication cable. The cable has a solid and compact element having a water-soluble polymer material having vinyl alcohol/vinyl acetate copolymer having a hydrolysis degree of 60-95% and a polymerisation degree hig... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7413353 | Device and method for data transmission between structural units connected by an articulated joint A device for transmitting data between two structural units connected to one another by an articulated joint has a long service life which permits a high transmission rate in conjunction with particularly small dimensions. The first structural unit includes a first ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412139 | Light transmission A fiber optic cable comprising at least one light transmitter extending longitudinally along the cable and a body encompassing the light transmitter. The body includes an exposed surface having an array of fastener elements extending therefrom. The fastener elements... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7349618 | Optical feedthrough assembly for use in implantable medical device An optical feedthrough assembly is provided that is configured to be disposed through the canister of an implantable medical device. The optical feedthrough assembly comprises a ferrule having an aperture therethrough and an inner surface therethrough. An optical fi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7221837 | Device and method for reducing glass flow during the manufacture of microchannel plates The present invention provides a glass packing tube for use in fabricating a microchannel plate. The glass tube has a plurality of flat inner surfaces and is used to form a boule including a plurality of optical fibers located in the tube and a plurality of support ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7200307 | High count telecommunication optical cable with controlled fiber length method and apparatus for manufacturing the same A telecommunication optical cable has a number of optical fibers; at least a microsheath loosely containing the optical fibers, the at least one microsheath loosely containing the optical fibers therein forming at least one corresponding microbundle, wherein the opt... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192541 | Method and apparatus for solid-stranding a flextube unit A solid-stranding method and apparatus for forming optical cables. Solid-stranding combines buffering and stranding operations, as well as performs the stranding operation while the flextubes are still hot so that they adhere together without additional binders. Opt... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188406 | Methods of manufacturing enhanced electrical cables Disclosed are methods of manufacturing electrical cables. In one embodiment of the invention, method for manufacturing a wellbore cable includes providing at least one insulated conductor, extruding a first polymeric material layer over the insulated conductor, serv... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7175407 | Linear flow equalizer for uniform polymer distribution in a spin pack of a meltspinning apparatus A linear flow equalizer for distributing thermoplastic material to a spin pack of a meltspinning apparatus that provides for uniform apportionment of a flow of a flowable thermoplastic material at least vertically and in a cross-machine direction of the spin pack. T... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7155097 | Fabrication of microstructured fibres A preform for a microstructured fibre or a part for a preform for a microstructured fibre. The preform or part has a length in the longitudinal direction and a cross section perpendicular thereto, and includes a rod arranged at the centre of the preform or part, wit... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7134861 | Extrusion nozzle An extrusion nozzle including an outlet port having a single opening with a first region, second region, and a pinched region between the two. The pinched region reduces the dimensions of the extrudate in relation to the dimensions associated with the first and seco... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7052734 | Integral pigments in composite surfaces The invention includes methods for imparting spectral characteristics to composite materials by coating prepreg or dry reinforcement materials with pigment, then processing the prepreg or dry reinforcement materials using conventional composite processing methods. T... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050691 | Optical waveguide and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing an optical waveguide having a core and a clad. The method includes forming a first clad by applying a resin on a substrate and curing the resin, applying a core material between a recessed mold which has a recess having a shape identical to... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7013236 | Methods and apparatus for calculating routing arrangements for control cables The present invention provides a method for predicting a routing arrangement for control cable without preparing experimental control cables. In the method according to the present invention, characteristics of a control cable to be laid are obtained (S1, S | 03/14/2006 |
| 7011774 | Composite structural components containing thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer reinforcements for optical fiber cables A process for producing an optical fiber cable composite structural component, such as reinforcing members, buffer tubes, filler rods, jackets, and slotted cores, is disclosed. The composite structural components are produced by co-extruding a thermotropic liquid cr... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006740 | Communication cable having a soft housing A cable containing at least one optical fiber and at least one material. The at least one optical fiber being at least partially embedded within the at least one material, and the at least one material forming a housing that protects the at least one optical fiber. ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6964523 | Optical switch, optical-fiber-arraying-member, production method thereof, and arraying method of optical fibers An optical switch is provided with an optical-fiber-arraying-member 1 in which a plurality of optical fiber fixing grooves 1a extending along radial directions of a virtual circle are radially formed in a predetermined surface of a base material... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6946647 | Multicolor staring missile sensor system A sensor system for viewing the light energy of a scene has an imaging detector which converts incident light energy into an electrical signal. Two colors are separately imaged by the detector in two imaging regions. The imaging system for each color includes a colo... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6931167 | Optical element and manufacturing method thereof A flexible optical element useful for optical wiring is provided, in which a light emitting portion is disposed to a core end face of a flexible polymeric optical waveguide channel sheet having a film substrate clad, a core and a clad layer covering the core. A meth... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6915564 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing coaxial cable with composite inner conductor A method of making a coaxial cable includes forming a conductive tube and setting a settable material therein to define an inner conductor. Forming may include advancing a conductive strip and bending it into a tube having a longitudinal seam. The settable material ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915051 | Spacer for optical fiber cable, method for producing said spacer, and optical fiber cable using said spacer In applying an intermediate coating layer of thermoplastic resin onto the periphery of a central tensile member and applying a main coating of polyethylene resin, having continuous spiral grooves that are for accommodating optical fibers and are inverted periodicall... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6892011 | Method and apparatus for fabrication of plastic fiber optic block materials and large flat panel displays This invention concerns a method and apparatus for manufacturing a sheet and a two-dimensional matrix of plastic optical fibers. The fibers may be of the step-index or graded-index type. Co-extrusion through a specially designed die is used to produce a sheet compos... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6827884 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing an optical fibre cable and cable so manufactured Undesired and unforeseeable shrinkage may occur in a tube of plastic material containing optical fibres following its manufacture, especially during storage when the tube is wound on a reel. As a result, there may be uncontrollable variations of the ratio between le... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6787602 | Method and installation for making an optical fiber A subject matter of the invention is a batchwise process for the manufacture of an optical fiber made of polymers, the core of the fiber being based on methyl methacrylate. This process is carried out in an in-line plant leaktight with respect to the outside ranging... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785455 | Dispersion compensation unit and method of producing the same A dispersion compensating fiber 1 is placed in the form of a coil or bundle within a housing 2, and a filling material 3 having a viscosity of 0.01 Pa·s to 0.6 Pa·s at normal temperature before curing is filled in a space around the dispersion... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6655433 | Optical fiber ribbonizing apparatus An optical fiber ribbonizing apparatus is disclosed which arranges a plurality of optical fibers in parallel, applies a resin to peripheries of the plurality of optical fibers, and hardens the resin to form the optical fibers into a ribbon. The apparatus ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6634075 | Method and arrangement in connection with secondary coating line The invention relates to a method and an arrangement in connection with a secondary coating line, in which method a fiber, fibers or fiber bundles are unwound from payoff reels (1) and guided to a press (4) by which a secondary sheath is formed around the... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6533883 | Method of manufacturing optical medium In a method of manufacturing an optical medium, an extended optical conductor containing active substance is formed to a predetermined shape by the use of resin by repeatedly folding or winding the optical conductor. A laser light beam or an amplified lig... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6500365 | Process for the manufacture of an optical core for a telecommunications cable Optical core for a telecommunications cable comprising at least one support consisting of a central reinforcing member and a first coating layer of a thermoplastic polymer applied around the central member, a plurality of optical fibres arranged around th... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6471892 | Method of producing tape type optical fiber core wire In a method of making a ribbon type coated optical fiber 3 comprising the step of inserting a plurality of optical fibers 1 flatly arranged parallel to each other through a die orifice 11a so as to collectively coat the optical fibers with a coating resin... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6466720 | Optical fibre cable manufacture In a method of manufacturing an optical fiber cable comprising optical fiber units 12 disposed within an extruded sheath 14 with water absorbent powder 16 being provided between the optical fiber unit or units and the sheath, the fiber units pass through ... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6309567 | Collectively coating die device for manufacturing separable optical fiber ribbon and manufacturing method thereof A collectively coating die device (2) is provided for applying coating resin in a lump to coated optical fibers (1) arranged in parallel on one and the same plane so as to form a plurality of optical fiber ribbons (16) at the same time. The collectively c... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6287487 | Method of forming flat panel display spacers A hexagonal mold is formed by a unitary base and a unitary cover. Each of the base and the cover form three of the six surfaces of a hexagonal mold cavity when the cover is placed on top of the base. The hexagonal mold may be used to form field emission d... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6241920 | Electrically optimized hybrid "last mile" telecommunications cable system A cable system is provided which can accommodate electrical and optical cabling. The conductors of the system employ a layer which is impedance-matched to space, decreasing their cross-section to electromagnetic interference. The conductors of the system ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6165390 | Method of forming flat panel display spacers A hexagonal mold is formed by a unitary base and a unitary cover. Each of the base and the cover form three of the six surfaces of a hexagonal mold cavity when the cover is placed on top of the base. The hexagonal mold may be used to form field emission d... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6137935 | Method for fabricating an optical cable In a method for producing an optical cable (1), at least one optical fiber (3), is surrounded by an extruded tubular sheath (5) which comprises an inner layer (7) and an outer layer (9) and is produced in a single operational step. Tension elements (11, 1... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6106745 | Method of making graded index polymeric optical fibers Disclosed is a method of making a graded index polymer optical fiber comprising a multicomponent spinning process employing spinning masses comprising a core spinning mass and a sheath spinning mass, the spinning masses comprising a polymer, a polymerizab... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6074578 | Barrel wall conduit arrangements for a plastic processing screw machine The invention comprises a plasticating machine for the working and forcing of plastic material into a mold, the machine including an elongated barrel housing having a first or proximal end and a second or distal end, and an elongated screw shaft with a sc... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6068796 | Sub-miniature optical fiber cables, and apparatuses and methods for making the sub-miniature optical fiber cables A simplex optical fiber cable of this invention includes an optical fiber, a buffer preferably of nylon, surrounding and in contact with the optical fiber, a yarn layer with strength fibers, preferably aramid fibers, disposed about the buffer and a sheath... | 05/30/2000 |
